The American Journalism Project, with support from the Google News Initiative, is launching a local news incubator. The program is intended to support entrepreneurs who want to explore launching a new nonprofit local news organization to serve their communities.

Individuals and small teams with ideas for new local news organizations can apply for this 18-month incubator, which will provide both startup capital and expert counsel. For this cohort, we will select up to four individuals or pairs. Founders will receive $400,000 to pursue their startup full-time and spend 18 months researching, developing an editorial strategy to fill the local news and information needs they identify in a given market, fundraising, coalition-building, and preparing to launch an organization.

The deadline to apply for the cohort is February 15, 2023. You can learn more and submit your application here. If you have any questions, please contact incubator@theajp.org.

NOTE: Before you apply, AJP encourages you to take this eligibility quiz here to see if the incubator is a good fit for you.

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We want to get the word out to all NENPA members and other New England publications to ensure they will not be impacted by Adobe shutting down its support for the many Type 1 fonts that have been available over the years.

Thank you to our friends at the Illinois Press Association (IPA) for sharing this important information.

What this can mean for you, is if you are utilizing Adobe InDesign for pagination or for creative purposes and are continuing to use Type 1 fonts (as many newspapers are without knowledge) and allow Adobe InDesign to automatically upgrade to version 18.2 – you may lose the ability to paginate with your current fonts. You will need to upgrade your font set to OpenType sets (or similar) as soon as possible.

If you utilize older versions of InDesign / Non-Creative Cloud versions, this impact will not immediately affect you.

The IPA staff highly suggests turning off automatic updates to Adobe InDesign until you verify your font set is upgraded before it auto-updates to version 18.2.

Adobe InDesign Creative Cloud includes the use of Adobe fonts from the Creative Cloud Solution which has the availability of many fonts for your use (advertised as more than 20,000 fonts).

The URL can be found here: https://fonts.adobe.com/ and you log in with your Adobe ID.

A link to more information can be found here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/kb/postscript-type-1-fonts-end-of-support.html

Here also is more information from Extensis:

https://www.extensis.com/connect-fonts/postscript-solution?utm_medium=ppc&utm_source=adwords&utm_term=postscript&utm_campaign=PostScript&hsa_acc=1687505350&hsa_cam=18088270946&hsa_src=g&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ad=617170209014&hsa_kw=postscript&hsa_mt=p&hsa_grp=135442950370&hsa_ver=3&hsa_tgt=kwd-297385468055&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIvu2-oL7y_AIV1hatBh1VZgbuEAAYASAAEgLuVfD_BwE

And here is an article about the font differences:

http://www.instantshift.com/2017/09/25/type-post-script-differences/

This article also could be helpful for Mac users:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/02/15/adobe-is-retiring-type-1-font-support-heres-how-to-prepare-for-the-change

• Nominees should be people who have made extraordinary contributions to their newspaper(s), the newspaper industry, and their communities. NENPA membership is not required to be eligible for the award.
• People who have excelled in any area of newspaper operations are eligible — i.e., editorial, advertising, circulation, production, and administration.
• You may nominate those still working in the industry and those who have retired. Posthumous nominations are also eligible.

Hall of Fame Members

Jack Authelet, The Foxboro Reporter
Alan L. Baker, The Ellsworth American.
Nelson Benton, The Salem News
Ellen Beveridge, The Trumbull Times
Robert Bissonnette, York County Coast Star
Louis Bleiweis, The Call
Roswell Bosworth, Jr., East Bay Newspapers
Roswell Bosworth, Sr., East Bay Newspapers
Chris Braithwaite, the Chronicle
Mary Dodge Brewer, Boothbay Register
David Brickman, The Homesteader-Newton
Alexander Bacon Brook, York County Coast Star
Judith Brown, The Herald
Dorothy Whipple Burgess, The Observer
Ann Burghardt, Independent Granite Publishing
Jacob Burghardt, Independent Granite Publishing
Phillip C. Camp Sr., The Vermont Standard
Peter J. Caruso Sr., Caruso & Caruso, LLC
Curtiss Clark, The Newtown Bee
William T. Clew, Telegram & Gazette
Tom Condon, The Hartford Courant
Ross Connelly, Hardwick Gazette
Timothy Cotter, The Day of New London
Kevin Crosbie, the Chronicle
Lucy B. Crosbie, the Chronicle
David Cutler, Stonebridge/Salmon Press
Nicholas Daniloff, Northeastern University
Oreste D’Arconte, The Sun Chronicle
Ed DeCourcy, Argus Champion
Paul Dietterle, Jr., Sanford News
Rodney G. Doherty, Foster’s Daily Democrat
William P. Dole, Cambridge Chronicle
John Donoghue, Burlington Free Press
Michael Donoghue, St. Michael’s College
Chazy Dowaliby, The Patriot Ledger/ The Enterprise
John Drysdale, The Herald of Randolph
Dickey Drysdale, The Herald of Randolph
Christopher A. Eddings, North Shore Weeklies
Robert Estabrook, The Lakeville Journal
James D. Ewing, The Keene Sentinel
Katherine Fanning, The Christian Science Monitor
Robert H. Foster, Foster’s Daily Democrat
Winifred B. French, The Quoddy Tides
Bernard Gallagher, Eagle-Tribune/Haverhill Gazette
Ted Gay, Jr., Taunton Daily Gazette
David D. Gearhart, The Wilton Bulletin
George Geers, Plaidswede Publishing
Peter Gelzinis, Boston Herald
Suzanne Gillis, Vermont Woman Newspaper
Charles “Chuck” Goodrich, Newspapers of New England
Marcia Green, Valley Breeze Newspapers
Raymond Gross, Courier-Gazette
Loren Ghiglione, Southbridge (MA) Evening News
William Hannan, The Sun Chronicle
John Dennis Harrigan, Coos County Democrat
Ruth Haskins Bass, The Berkshire Eagle
Joseph P. Heaney, Boston Herald
Frank J. Heinrich, International Circulation Managers Association
Rudolph A. Hempe, No. Kingston Standard Times
Donald Hersam, New Canaan Advertiser
Thomas E. Heslin, Providence Journal
John I. Howell,  Beacon Communications
Phyllis Hughes, Memorial Press Group
Vincent M. Igo, The Foxboro Reporter
Virginia Jackson, The Spectator
Henry E. Josten, Pictorial Gazette
Robert “Bob” Katz, New England Press Association
Bob Katzen, Beacon Hill Roll Call

Tom Kearney, The Stowe Reporter
Jonathan Kellogg, Republican-American
William B. Ketter, Eagle-Tribune Publishing Co.
Martin Langeveld, New England Newspapers, Inc
Harry J. Lally, Brooks Community Newspapers
Leonard I. Levin, The Providence Journal
Linda Lotridge Levin, University of Rhode Island
Hal Levy, Shore Line Newspapers
Angelo Lynn, Addison County Independent
Emerson Lynn, St. Albans Daily Messenger
W. Zachary (Bill) Malinowski, The Providence Journal
Warren McClure, Burlington Free Press
Morgan McGinley, The Day
Lincoln McKie Jr., Journalist & Journalism Teacher
Gerald McLaughlin, Springfield Reporter
Joseph W. McQuaid, Union Leader
Stephen Mindich, Boston Phoenix
John Mitchell, The Times Argus
Robert Mitchell, Rutland Herald
Rocco Molinari, The Sun Chronicle
David A. Morse, The Hardwick Gazette
Karl S. Nash, The Ridgefield Press
John Nash, Westfield Evening Citizen
Kendall Nye, The Sun Chronicle
Susan Ovans, The Hull Times
Candace Page, Burlington Free Press
Russel Pergament, TAB Newspapers Boston Metro
John C. Peterson, The Peterson Group
Morley L. Piper, NE Newspaper Association
William L. Plante, Jr., MNPA
Pamela Polston, Seven Days
Greg Popa, Vermont Community Newspaper Group
Douglas H. Reed, The Free Press
Paul A. Rixon, The Sun Chronicle
Samuel E. Roberts, The Lincoln County News
Irving E. Rogers, III, Eagle-Tribune
Walter Robinson, The Boston Globe
William B. Rotch, The Cabinet Press
Paula Routly, Seven Days
Mary Pat Rowland, Foster’s Daily Democrat
Bob Ryan, The Boston Globe
Richard Saltonstall, Jr., Norumbaga Publishing
Jack Sanders, The Ridgefield Press
William J. Slator, Addison County Independent
Scudder Smith, The Newtown Bee
Paul Scudder Smith, The Newtown Bee
Gordon Smith, Caledonian-Record
James H. Smith, Connecticut Journalist
Albert B. Southwick, Telegram & Gazette
George Speers, New England Press Association
Albert Spendlove, The Telegraph
Albert E. Sylvia, Sr., North Reading Transcript
Elsie M. Talanian, The Salem Observer
Jeanne Tempest, Granite State News
Lisa Tuite, The Boston Globe
Bob Wallack, New England Press Association
Daniel J. Warner, Eagle-Tribune
William Wasserman, North Shore Weeklies
Peter Watson, Gloucester Daily Times
Julia Wells, Vineyard Gazette
Alan White, Eagle -Tribune
Eliot White, Record-Journal Media Group
John Widdison, Worcester Gazette
James Russell Wiggins, The Ellsworth American
Selma Williams, North Shore Weeklies
Frederick J. Wilson, III, So. County Newspapers
George Wilson, Concord Monitor
Carol J. Young, Providence Journal

In 2022, the MacGregor Fiske Award was incorporated into the Journalism Education Foundation of New England Scholarship Program. This generous contribution will allow the program to bestow a scholarship named in honor of Mac Fiske, who died in 2009 at 75.

MacGregor Fiske spent his career as a sportswriter, sports editor, news editor, city editor, copy editor, and weekly columnist. Fiske was a much-loved mentor known for his warmth, kindness, and keen editing.

The MacGregor Fiske Award was established by his wife, Mary McCann Fiske, and was first bestowed in 2013. She started the award to recognize talented, hard-working journalists who are relatively new to the field, encouraging them to persevere in the profession to sustain an informed society.

McCann Fiske decided to transfer the funding to NENPA’s Journalism Education Foundation to ensure its continued impact and reach in the years to come through scholarships to promising journalism students.

“Mac never sought the limelight, but he would have felt good about helping individual journalists and seeing the progress of those the Fiske Award has recognized,” McCann Fiske said. “I’m hopeful that this will continue to help strengthen journalism in New England, especially newspapers, which we know can mean so much to a community.”

The New England Newspaper and Press Association awards up to 10 scholarships each year to aspiring journalists through the Journalism Education Foundation of New England.

College students or high school seniors, who are residents of New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, or VT) and are studying and acquiring work experience that will prepare them to work in the field of journalism are eligible to apply.

Learn more about the program

Please contact Linda Conway at l.conway@nenpa.com if you would like to make a donation to support the MacGregor Fiske Scholarship, the general Journalism Education Foundation of New England scholarships, or if you are interested in honoring a mentor or a loved one with a Journalism scholarship in their name.

The Rebuild Local News Coalition, an alliance of local news organizations launched in 2020, has now become an independent nonprofit organization and plans a drive to advance a range of public policies to address the accelerating crisis in local news that threatens so many communities.

The Coalition will research, develop and champion public policies at the state, local and national levels – including payroll tax credits to hire and retain local reporters, proposals to target government advertising spending toward local news instead of social media, and reducing the influence of hedge funds on local newspapers.

The organization is funded by a combination of support from journalism organizations and leading philanthropic organizations. Philanthropic and private sector supporters include the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Microsoft,  the Yellow Chair Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Charles H. Revson Foundation, the Argosy Foundation, the Posner Foundation. Previous support has come from Democracy Fund.

Steven Waldman, who as president of Report for America created the Coalition, will become the full-time president of the organization. The Coalition was incubated at the GroundTruth Project, home of Report for America, and has already pulled together a broad-based coalition including publishers and labor unions, rural weeklies, nonprofit newsrooms, state press associations, and civic organizations. Together, they represent more than 3,000 local newsrooms.

Read the full article at Rebuild Local News

Report for America (RFA) helps local newsrooms report on under-covered issues and communities by sending early-career and mid-to-late-career reporters and photographers to newsrooms throughout the country. As an RFA Corps Member, you’ll be a part of a movement to strengthen communities—and our democracy—through local journalism that is truthful, fair, fearless, and smart.

RFA is a two-year program, with an optional third year. Each service year begins on July 10 and runs through July 9. We currently have 300 reporters and photographers in 200 newsrooms serving communities across the country.  We are seeking talented, service-minded journalists and photographers to join our reporting corps.  Applications are now open for 55+ journalism positions. Check out our interactive database of job openings, newsrooms, and beats here and read the FAQs to make sure you are a good fit for our program. Because of the immediate impact candidates are expected to have in newsroom settings, corps member applicants should have a minimum of 1-3 years of local news experience. Recent graduates may apply if they’ve had local newsroom internships or journalism leadership experience in college.

Deadline Date to Apply: January 30, 2023

Report for America is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Application Process

To apply, complete the corps member application below. The deadline to apply is January 30, 2023.  Should you become a finalist and be slated for one or more newsroom interviews by our selection team, your application will be shared with those newsrooms.

Important Note: Please be sure to alert your two references that they will receive an email from Submittable, our application platform, with the recommendation form.  At the prompt in the application, we strongly recommend you send this form right away even before completing your application.  Your application will not advance if we don’t receive your two references by February 6, 2023 – the reference deadline.

Questions?

Contact the Report for America recruitment team at recruitment@reportforamerica.org or join us for one of our virtual information sessions.  You may register for an information session here.

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The NENPA team is grateful for your support as a member, eBulletin subscriber, program participant, and advocate for local news and press freedom.

We are still in the early stages of planning our spring Newspaper Convention and fall Newspaper Conference. As we look ahead to 2023, we’d like to know what services, training, and support you would like us to offer.

Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us so we can provide the best opportunities for you and your staff.

For more information, contact Linda Conway at l.conway@nenpa.com.